San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-29

About the Fish e-Prohibition-Ar-
tesian Well-Grape Culture-Deep
neutrality-suspicious., Etc.
CoRPUs CHRISTI, July 81.
Editor LIGHT:
1t is now nearly a m onth that your
correspondent has sojourned In this city
| by the sea, and II, as the proyerb says,
looming events cast their shadows be-
FORE" is true, he will return with new
lease Of life In a short time. This re-
minds me that fair member Of the
LIGHT typographical force has been So
| jOurning here on lengthy visit to
friends, and judging from ocular obser-
walton San Antonio beaux may look out
| for their lAurels. Since the Fourth OF
| July, Corpus Christi, or 1.-THE city by the
! sea-" as the citizens love to call IL, has
assumed its usual quietude, which Is
only interrupted at early morn by some
twenty or thirty hacks TO catch twelve
passengers Tor departing trains, and to
be repeated at eve ut trains due here.
though great deal OF all this dizziness
Is very much attributable to the pro-
longed drought with the sun for these
two weeks past SO degrees in the shade
though strong southerly breeze Is
blowing, for without the latter, life
would be unbearsbe here.
Inquiry .and casual conversation
with the principal merchants, ELECTS
the fact that business Is 20 per cent dis
| count against the same period last
year including even the traffic In the
most every day needed staples. While
the ordinary daily market supply In the
way of meat Is fair great want Of veg
sss &c. S nos ,ha usual addenda Of garden
| sass leaEes muCh 10 uo ID for
FIsHERMEN's STRIKE. -,
Like a cloud Tightening and thunder out
OF a clear sky, came the announcement
last Monday morning that all local
fishermen had struck for more pay and
j. Souberach who has had the largest
trade for years past for shipment to in
terior markets, refuses to pay more than
three cents per pound Irrespective OF
kind and siZe. This price Is claim ed to
be too little to live and just too much
10 starve, thus all packing OF fish for
the Alamo city and adjoining points
from this port has ceased for the time
being, though the local market Is well
supplied with red fish, founders, trout
| and mullets.
TO form an idea OF the magnitude OF
the fish trade from this port 1t should be
| stated that there are some ten vessels,
|
the fishing trade, each having q crew
at from three to four men aboard. TAX
ing the records of the express COM
| pany's books, John SOuberaoh alone has
shipped during the month of June 81, 900
| pounds OF fish, not including turtles,
shrImps, etc.
| PROHIBITION.
The great question OF the hour is the
election on the fourth OF August next,
and discussions are getting TO wax ex-
| ceedingly hot in regard to results there
| Is no doubt but what this county
| (Nueces) will give a decided majority
| for the antis, and this is increased by the
Rev. Mr.. Sutherland, who remarked
| while delivering his school boy speech,
1t being composed of the old thread
bare TRADE against whisky made the
claim that saloon keepers were the
COrmOrants OF any country and the
wife and family of such men not
| Christian people. For the time
being this was not answered, but
1t will be when Mr.. Grain comes
here, which will be in q few days.
| THE NEW ARTEsIAN WELL.
This is at present the greatest novelty
in Corpus Christi. The original plant,
/ IL plhII II Cdu bc Chlltu, was Htel
| ed In ante bellum times, but afterwards
neglected and filed up. a new boring
and sinking of pipe 3S7 feet has
brought about a flow of water that
smacks of the celebrated Blue Lick
springs of Kentucky. Crude acoommO-
dations for drinking the water, which
runs continuous, with still cruder facIli-
| ties for bathing, are constructed, and all
| day long strangers and natives are sur
rounding the spring for drinking or
bathing.
WINE CULTURE.
J. C. Hatch, the celebrated proprietor
| of the Ingleside vineyard, after having
sold nearly $1,000 worth of fresh grapes
| throughout the state, Is now engaged In
| wine making, and expects to make at
least 30 barrels of 40 gallons each, be-
sides having shipped and disposed Of
some $1,000 worth OF vegetables during
| the season. All this from forty
acres OF cultivated ground.
The newly incorporated wharf COM
pany, on Padre Island, with all its need
ed break waters in the open gulf which
secures connection with the main land,
seems to be a realistic fact, as already
large schOOners are expected here from
| Pensacola and PascagOula with heavy
timber for the work. This scheme, IL
completed, will make or create revO-
luton In cattle trade. rs the wharf will
admit the landing Of deep water steam
ers at its landings.
The Lone Star brewery, Of your city,
is doing q splendid business here
through its efficient agent, Mr.. +. S.
| Outterside, but he deserves new wa
gon, harness and horse for his energetic
work in the interest Of the Lone Star.
| Your correspondent paid several visits
to the mayors court and finds 1t just the
same as San Antonio's mOgul, a tribunsl
OF abselutism against which even n
young fedgellsg OF the law and
disciple Of Blackstone though gifted
with fine rhetorical eloquence had TO b.
silent, the cases being jury cases were
yet won by the defense.
Among prominent visitors will men
ton Mr.. +. l.. TALBOT, of the San An
tonic street railway with his family. Mr..
Talcot Ia buying up all the shells and
stuffed birds and will soon have n
museum Of natural curiosities, mostly Of
the briny deep in San Antonio. Miss
Emily Smidt, OF Uvalde, ia visiting
friends. Alfred Ilgner, of the Grip, il
making things lively among his many
friends. Attorney John K. Oohse and
lady are among the latest arrivals, and
good for gulf breeZes for several weeks.
Hon. J. b. Mcfarland, district judge
and wife, OF Washington county and
Bates Mcfarland and family, OF Court
ney, Grimes county, are visiting the
city by the sea. Among the many visit
ors here, there Is a party making up for
visit to Padre Island. The large